When authority doesn't compute

This is the ninth post in my autism awareness month series. In the previous post, I described the autistic person who looks at you and smiles while you wait for them to comply with something they know they have to do and simply won't. Part of what produces that smile is the absence of spontaneous facial mimicry. But there's something else behind it: the submission reflex that isn't there. For most people, deference to authority is not primarily a conscious decision. It's a conditioned reflex: th